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God of the Week: Asclepius (Aesculapius)

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God of medicine and the healing arts, he has several unusual myths and features, including a strange relationship with a snake when he was a child.

January 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of writing 2

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Paintings by David, Richard Dadd, Carl Larsson, Pierre Bonnard, and Jean Béraud exploring the roles of writing in the nineteenth century.

December 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

On the road: Itinerants and travellers in paintings 2

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Photographers, musicians, harvesters, foresters, booksellers and propagandists, and tinkers from the roads of the past.

November 1, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Asleep in the painting 1: Stories

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Sleeping figures painted by Rubens, Poussin, Velázquez, William Blake, Richard Dadd and other masters.

June 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Death on the Wing: Crows and ravens in paintings 1

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Escorts of valkyries, the bird of the gibbet, and seeker of carrion: crows and ravens are associated with death, magic, and more.

November 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Soul in Flight: paintings of butterflies to 1860

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From Pisanello and Dosso Dossi to William Holman Hunt and Richard Dadd: paintings showing butterflies.

August 10, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Balcony: Outside In

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David and Bathsheba, Romeo and Juliet – balconies are a useful device for painter, and not just to tell stories. Goya, Manet, and beyond.

May 25, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Corydon: 1 Stories of shepherds

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Shepherds and shepherdesses painted in stories, from classical myth, through the Bible and Christ’s nativity, to epic poetry, including Milton’s Paradise Lost.

April 27, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Legends of England in Paint: Robin Hood

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The first of two looking at the telling of English legends in paintings: Robin Hood and his ‘Merry Men’, popular for the last 500 years.

September 8, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The best of this year’s paintings and articles

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A look back at some of my favourite articles on painters and painting, from Moreau and Salome, to Merson’s tame wolf.

December 31, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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